BlackBerry

BlackBerry jam

Research in Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry, has had a lot of damaging publicity in recent years. BlackBerry is no longer flavour of the month. It’s in a bit of a jam.

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"I still struggle to write emails and text messages with the tiny keys on my BlackBerry, which forces me to communicate in a much simpler and more direct way than I normally do. Above all, it is a very slow process. This in itself isn’t bad, because slowness is 'in'."

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I think my Blackberry's not working again: it's ____!

Frozen or freezing?

Do you really want everybody to know where you are?

Location, location, location

INTERNET: A new feature offered by Facebook allows users to share instant information on their location with online friends. Sounds like fun, right? But critics of Facebook Places worry that privacy and safety will be compromised.

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Seeing the future of the media

What will be the future of the media? As someone who works for a publisher that creates magazines, audio CDs, podcasts, videos, websites and many other products, I clearly have more than a passing interest in the subject.

Attention, please!

People can be irritating at work. Very irritating indeed at times. Often, they give us the feeling that we do not have their full attention. But if managers are not paying attention in meetings, shareholders may rightly feel angry.

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What a deal!

President Barack Obama’s praise for the BlackBerry smartphone could be worth millions of dollars in advertising to the Canadian company RIM. And Obama hasn’t received a cent!

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